Brief Life History of John Robert
When John Robert Dunn was born on 26 May 1878, in Kennesaw, Cobb, Georgia, United States, his father, Drury Daniel Dunn, was 22 and his mother, Emma Viola Benson, was 20. He died on 25 December 1899, in Cobb, Georgia, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Little River Methodist Church, Woodstock, Cherokee, Georgia, United States.
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- John R Dunn in household of Drury D Dunn, "United States Census, 1880"
- John Robert Dunn, "BillionGraves Index"
- John Robert Dunn, "Georgia, Fulton County Records from the Atlanta History Center, 1827-1955"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .
English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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